Original blue cloth on bevelled boards, elaborately lettered and decorated in red, green and gilt; yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Lightly scuffed, front free endpaper excised, otherwise a bright clean copy, good++. Contains The Burgomaster's Daughter by W. H. Kingston, The Rift in the Rock by Mrs S. C. Hall, Headless and Handless by Frances H Wood, and the following anonymous stories: Moffat the Missionary, The Sea-Side Home, Halcyon Days, The Northcroft Lilies, The Rewards of Industry. It appears that different versions of this book, with a different selection of stories, was published at different times; each story having originally been published independently.